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23 March 2017.
Photo by Donna Robertson.
File Reference: 2017-03-23-IMG_9061
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
The West Milford Public Library has some very interesting and beautiful flowers planted around the building. I spotted these while for my morning walk with the dog.
"Completed in 1995, the 1560sqm Eltham Library is located in a community that prides itself on its artistic heritage and commitment to environmental issues. Pioneering artist and architect Justus Jorgensen established an artistic and cultural precinct Montsalvat in Eltham in the 1930s. In the 1940s Alastair Knox won historic approval to build in earth construction. Mud brick beame a defining feature of this area. The design reflects this heritage and incorporates many other challenges including existing trees, an historic building, overlooking from the main road and proximity to the railway line. Sustainable natural materials were used including earth, radially sawn and recycled timbers and copper panelling and flashing. The library is much enjoyed by its users and is a focal point for community activities."
Source: gregoryburgessarchitects.com.au/projects/educational/elth...
The Utrecht University is the largest university in the Netherlands. The library building at the campus is a very modern, large and beautiful building. There are a lot of rooms for studying, reading, relaxing etc.
Detail of the front of the building.
The most awesome SoapChickAsh has officially moved to Salt Lake City and hopefully my Flickr jump shots will never be the same! For the better btw :) Go visit her stream and check out the cool beach glass shots and her jump shots. She promised me she was getting back on Flickr and joining all of us addicts again. Finally :)
This interesting looking building stands on London Road, Stoke-on-Trent. Opened in November 1878, it was designed by Charles Lynam (1829-1921) and built by John Gallimore for a cost of £2,850. It appears to have been decorated in an early Arts and Crafts style.I have a feeling however, that the library, listed in 1991, has now closed.
Pentax K-x/SMC 28mm (42mm on this format).
View of the library at Trinity College (now Duke University), Durham, N.C.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Date:
1912
Location:
Durham (N.C.); Durham County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052), North Carolina Collection Photographic
Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. The Library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol. The Encyclopedia Britannica describes the Library of Congress as the largest library in the world, and the library describes itself as such. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages."
The Library of Congress moved to Washington in 1800 after sitting for 11 years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. The small Congressional Library was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century until the early 1890s. Most of the original collection had been destroyed by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812, and the library sought to restore its collection in 1815. They bought Thomas Jefferson's entire personal collection of 6,487 books. After a period of slow growth, another fire struck the Library in its Capitol chambers in 1851, again destroying a large amount of the collection, including many of Jefferson's books. After the American Civil War, the Library of Congress grew rapidly in both size and importance, which sparked a campaign to purchase replacement copies for volumes that had been burned. The Library received the right of transference of all copyrighted works to deposit two copies of books, maps, illustrations, and diagrams printed in the United States. It also began to build its collections, and its development culminated between 1888 and 1894 with the construction of a separate, extensive library building across the street from the Capitol.
The Library's primary mission is to research inquiries made by members of Congress, carried out through the Congressional Research Service. The Library is open to the public, although only high-ranking government officials and Library employees may check out books and materials.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_Building
The oldest of the four United States Library of Congress buildings, the Thomas Jefferson Building was built between 1890 and 1897. It was originally known as the Library of Congress Building and is located on First Street SE, between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Street in Washington, D.C. The Beaux-Arts style building is known for its classicizing facade and elaborately decorated interior. Its design and construction has a tortuous history; the building's main architect was Paul J. Pelz, initially in partnership with John L. Smithmeyer, and succeeded by Edward Pearce Casey during the last few years of construction. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
The Cloisters is a museum located in Fort Tryon Park, New York City. The building, which is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was built in the 1930s resembling architectural elements of several European medieval abbeys. It is used to exhibit art and architecture from Medieval Europe....
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Run by a team of volunteers, with support from Dorset library services in the form of bookstock, computer/catalogue access, and regular visits from a community liaison librarian.
Visited by members of the Taskforce team.
Photo credit: Julia Chandler/Libraries Taskforce
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Birmingham's library opened by "Malala Yousafzai" the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban. on the 3rd Sep 2013 ... The £189m Library of Birmingham, which houses one million books and is the largest library in Europe
In honor of National Library Week, which ends today, April 25th. The plaque says the old library was built in 1902 and donated by Andrew Carnegie.
Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.,
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I've been working on photos from Open House Melbourne over the weekend and got to the Law Library at the Supreme Court of Victoria and had to share this one, heavy processing on this one and dropped the saturation to give it an older look!
ISO 400 | 1/13 sec | f/3.5 | 7mm
The Lorette Wilmot Library opened in 1957, and its second-floor stacks are surely well known to any serious Nazareth scholar. But how many students have followed the stacks all the way to the south end, where an elderly restroom waits behind an unmarked door?
Tidying in the garden yesterday, in the house today. Finally got the overspill of paperbacks shelved - the ones that dont fit in the library - and are mostly the sort of popular fiction you read once and are happy to swap or share. Apart from N's Patrick O'Brien collection on the top shelf - and yes, I know they are out of sequence!
I've seen some pictures of paperbacks shelved by colour - like a rainbow. Might be fun to do that one day, but the librarian in me will always revert to alphabetical - plus an oversized shelf.......
Interactive Library for experiencing immersive content
National Library of Korea, Seocho-gu, Seoul
April 16, 2021
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
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Official Photographer : Kim sun joo
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